continuing resolution

Pentagon says full-year CR would cut its 2022 spending by more than $20B

Major reductions in military accessions, a civilian hiring freeze and cuts to PCS moves are all strong possibilities under a full-year continuing resolution,…

Defense

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For contractors, early 2022 is starting to look a bit too much like late 2021

Congress

Cadets salute during the National Anthem prior to the NCAA college football game between the Army Black Knights and Massachusetts at Michie Stadium, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in West Point, N.Y. The U.S. military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of the armed services and have welcomed more racially diverse students each year for the better part of the last decade. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Service members who lose their job during deployment get more help in their corner

Federal Newscast

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McDonough warns of ‘deleterious’ impact of full-year continuing resolution on VA operations

Veterans Affairs

CR signed but new contracting initiatives still won’t start until spring

Contracting

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Your federal pay raise prospects, under (yet another) CR

Federal Report

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The 2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is lit after a ceremony on the West Front Lawn of Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. This year's tree is a white fir from the Six Rivers National Forest in California. The tradition of decorating U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree dates back to 1964. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Senate passes stopgap funding bill, avoiding shutdown

Government Shutdown

Sated from Thanksgiving, Congress now has an expiring CR to deal with

Congress

Yes it got an infrastructure bill passed, but Congress still has a lot of work to do

Congress

Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, James Clyburn

Congress, you might say, is running out of runway

Congress

House leadership wants to get on with a final appropriation agreement for fiscal 2022

Congress

FILE - In this March 4, 2021, a bird flies near the U.S. Capitol dome at sunrise in Washington. The Republican fundraising committee dedicated to flipping the House in the 2022 midterm elections says it raised more than $105 million this year through September 2021. The record haul marks a 74% increase over last cycle and includes $25.8 million raised in the third quarter of the year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Checking in on the year-end checklist, and it’s not pretty

No, there hasn’t been much progress on several pressing issues, including a need to secure full-year agency funding and avert (another) government shutdown,…

Federal Report

Several Transportation Department agencies back to work this morning following a brief shutdown

Members of Congress agreed to reauthorize the Highway Trust Fund that funds several DOT agencies during a vote on Saturday. But that’s about all they got done.

Congress

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2015 file photo, a U.S. service member salutes her fallen comrades during a memorial ceremony for six Airmen killed in a suicide attack, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. ter 20 years America is ending its “forever” war in Afghanistan. There’s conflicting views even among U. S. military minds as to whether the time is right. For others there is another lingering question: Was it worth it? (Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Increase in military suicide rates continues troubling trend

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is seeing troubling new figures in military suicide rates.